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International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Lui Moreno Ocampo on Friday asked Kenya for a 12-month plan showing how the country intends to bring key culprits of the 2007 election violence to justice.
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Federal Republic of Ethiopia and the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere of Tanzania will be honoured for their contribution in liberating Rwanda, 15 years ago.
One Saturday 40 years ago, Kenya's most promising leader, Tom Mboya, was gunned down in a busy Nairobi street.
GULU district chairman Norbert Mao has questions to answer, army spokesperson Maj. Felix Kulayigye has said.
Spain Has Launched the Spanish Plan Africa 2009 - 2012, which encourages key initiatives that could play a role in preventing conflicts and strengthening peace in post-conflict areas in sub-Saharan Africa.
Reacting to public outcries relative to the reticence of the Liberian Government on the detention of Sekou Conneh in Guinea, former leader of one of the warring factions in Liberia, Information Minister Dr. Laurence Bropleh has set the record straight, saying that the detained Conneh is being treated as Guinean national and not a Liberian citizen.
The Liberian educational system is said to be suffering from the shock of the decade-long civil war, an official of the Ministry of Education has said in Monrovia.
Massive preparations are being planned in Monrovia by certain elements within the Mandingo Community to stage a non-violent street demonstration in protest to the prolonged detention in Guinea of the former presidential candidate for the Progressive Democratic Party for Liberia (PROTEMP), Mr.Sekou Demante Conneh.
Government is expected to realign arms manufacturer Denel and put it back under the control of the Department of Defence and Military Veterans.
The Department of Defence and Military Veterans is to embark on a policy review to include South Africa's obligations to peace and security and humanitarian assistances outside its borders.
The Gambia Armed Forces, in partnership with the US embassy in Banjul, yesterday, began a two-day HIV/AIDS sensitization seminar for personnel of The Gambia navy.
Calm has returned to Karan and Hwl-wadag district in the Somali capital Mogadishu where yesterday's clashes killed more in the capital.
The journey on the 29th of June 2009 to the Brick House Port Harcourt by Alhaji Asari Dokubo, who was led by Prince Tonye Princewill, the leader and chairman, of Board of Trustees of the Forum of Organised Opposition Political Parties (FOOPP) in Rivers State, has not only left many people agape, but also proved the critics of the Eso-led reconciliatory panel wrong.
Avoid another jamboree in granting amnesty to militants, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has warned the government - and separate genuine agitators from criminals who have tainted the Niger Delta struggle.
The amnesty granted by President Umaru Musa Yar'adua to Niger Delta militants could only succeed if the militants themselves consider the offer as genuine and embrace it in the interest of peace in the country, former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon has said.
The U.S. government voiced concern on Wednesday over actions taken by Niger's President Mamadou Tandja to extend his rule in the West African country.
"Rwanda descends into bloody chaos," wrote the Chicago Tribune of April 8th, 1994. "Deadly Reality, Rwanda is Dying," screamed an editorial of L.A Times on 4th May, 1994.
This multi-ethnic community is still scarred by ruins and desolate wards, a horrifying reminder of the communal clashes of Sunday and Monday, May 2 and 3, 2004, which claimed over 700 human lives, displaced about 45,000 persons, and overheated Nigeria's Plateau, compelling the then President Olusegun Obasanjo to slam a state of emergency on Plateau State.
The Federal Government would tomorrow in Abuja, convene an inter-ministerial meeting over boundary disputes between Nigeria and Republic of Benin.
Shell Group has finally confirmed that its Nigerian arm, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), has completely shut down its entire operations in the Western Niger Delta owing to increasing attacks on its workers and infrastructure.
As the fresh crisis which engulfed Okene in Kogi State escalates, armed soldiers from the Chari Maigumeri Barracks in Lokoja were yesterday drafted to the area to restore peace following the inability of mobile policemen to bring the crisis under control.
Abia State lawmakers have appealed to President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, to extend the amnesty offered militants in the Niger Delta region to kidnappers in the state, to lift their siege on the state.
Nigeria was yesterday thrown into grief as two of her illustrious sons who in their various callings had contributed in no small measure towards the development of the nation died of old age and cadiac arrest.
A TOTAL of sh1.7b has been earmarked to compensate people whose body parts were cut-off by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
United Nations-backed Congolese armed forces conducting intensified military operations in eastern and northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have failed to protect civilians from brutal rebel retaliatory attacks and instead are themselves attacking and raping Congolese civilians, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday.
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